So you're saying Dr Fauci is too stupid to comprehend clinical trials?
No, not at all. Dr. Fauci does not design or run clinical trials. He's told the truth, as known at the time he makes a statement. (With the possible exception of the "masks are useless" fiasco. But even then, I bet he said "Masks don't protect you." Which is fairly true, but fails to mention that they protect everybody else
from you if you are infected. But that is forgivable because we could just maintain isolation, but health care workers really needed the N95 masks to do their jobs.
Look at what Dr. Fauchi has said: "There is no proof HCQ is effective." That's true, if you consider proof to be p<=0.5 in a random double-blind clinical trial. Which most researchers consider to be actual proof, though there is a 5% or less chance of that result occurring by chance.
What he has NOT said is: "There is proof that early HCQ in a reasonable dose with zinc, does not work." He is just being conventionally conservative in the spirit of "First of all, do no harm."
But there is something to be said for not being so conservative in light of one person dying each minute in the US from Covid-19. Personally, I think under these circumstances, it would be smarter to look at what various hospitals and doctors are doing and use protocols that are getting good results. For example, the RECOVERY trial in England tried dexamethasone on half their patients and no steroids on the other half. That's a valid proof clinical trial. But it ignores the fact that thousands of patients with clear inflammation markers in their blood received no steroids, even though steroids are the standard of care for inflammation. More than 40% of them died because a standard drug was withheld for the sake of the trial.
But for months, the MATH+ protocol was getting MUCH better results using methylprednisolone (another steroid). And not just 5% better: More like 10 times better.
